Politics and Money

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There's more!. No wonder why our country is in the state its in. Even our infrastructure is crumbling, I take this back, its crumbled. When Eisenhower was president, and the big thinker he was, got us off the frontage, state, and county roads to the Interstate. He actually adopted this idea from Germany's Autobahn. This was Hitlers idea of how to travel. Actually he had his military in mind. Even he had some good ideas to bad they were all used for evil purposes.

When Eisenhower was president 12% of revenue went toward building and maintaining our infrastructure. Today the revenue is less than 1.5%. From Kennedy on, less, and less of the revenue generated went toward these projects, and this is the result. To do all the repairs, replacements for either roads, bridges, electrical grids, underground waterpipes, drainage pipes, levy's, and a host of other things, nationwide has been estimated at todays low cost of $22T.......guess no one saw this coming huh?.

If you were able to watch the documentary "The Crumbling of America", we come to understand just how servere the problem(s) are. We watched one of our bridges collapse in Minnesota, and this is just one bridge. We don't have to drive far to hit a pot hole, a buckle in the road, and here in Milwaukee if you can imagine?, cars have fallen into sink holes, which are usually the cause of underground drainage pipes leaking. I remember a time when gravel roads were better maintained, even dirt roads in the South. Nothing like starting out with a new vehicle and beating it up.........if your lucky enough to have one?........by the time its paid for the suspension, and or everything else underneath has been jarred loose,damaged,broken, bent, or wornout just when that warranty is needed the most. Unlike those commercials we see, those roads are Perfecto!, smooth as glass.:)

This is part of the problem http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/19/procter-gamble-tax-avoidance/
The other part of the problem are our politicians not closing all these stupid loopholes forcing these corrupt companies to pay their taxes ,or face the music, like every working class individual they come after, and the only people they seem to ever come after. You and I don't have, and never had loopholes made just for us so we could beat the government.

Our politicians always had plenty of money to hand out to every country on the planet at one time, and still at it. They're either making concessions, or trying to buy friends, building, or rebuilding some other country.

Congress with our presidents have been in pursuit of every other nation to clean up their backyards while forgetting about the one out their front, and back windows. DC outside the beltway is just one fine example.